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J. BAUMGARTNER.

MOLD FOR PURMING GONIGAL BUTTS 0N CANDLES. 110.436,731. 'Patented Sept. 16, 1890.

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, JosEPH BAUMGARTNEE, on NEw YORK, N. Y., AssieNoE or ONE-HALE l'ro i FRANCIS E. THUEEEE, or sAME PLACE. Y

i i MOLD FOR FORMING CONICAL BUTTS ON CANDLES..

SPECIFICATION forming part` of Letters Patent No. 436,731, dated September 16, 1890.

Application filed May 2, 1890.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH BAUMGARTNEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at- New York, in the County and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Molds for Forming Conical Butts or Self-Fitting Ends upon Candles, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the making upon ordinary straight candles at the butt-ends or ends which enter the Candlestick formations of a conical or tapering shape, which will enable the candles to iit candlesticks having different sizes of holes therein. Herctofore such formations have ordinarily been provided in the manufacture of the candles themselves, although it has also been proposed to mold them upon the candle ends by pouring the melted wax or other material around the candle end in a mold, or by pressing the candle while in a plastic state in a mold. The last method, besides requiring a more expensive and larger apparatus, is less easy to carry into effect than the preceding, but is not open to the objection of leaving a burr or irregular place where the molten substance is poured at the side of the candle into the mold.

In accordance with the present invention a conical mold is provided with a hole for the insertion of the candle, but otherwise closed, is partially lled with molten wax, paraffine, stearic-acid wax, tallow, or other suitable material, and the candle upon which the conical butt or self-litting end is to be formed is in serted through the hole in the top of the mold and forced down into the liquefied material, displacing the latter and causing it to fill the mold around the end of the candle. The material is allowed to harden and then the candle is removed from the mold,which is divided, so as to permit its removal from the candle. The mold is formed of a conical or upwardly- Haring body portion and a cap in the form of a solid collar much shorter than the candle, of course. The inclined walls maybe grooved, plain, or of any suitable configuration, and the bottom of the body portion may be closed or left open to rest upon a table or base-plate.

Serial No. 350,287. (Model.)

The cap and the upper part of the body of the 5o mold may be of such shape as to form a projecting collar on the candle at the largest end of the conical formation or self-fitting butt,

or they maybevof other suitable sha-pe. The division between t-he cap and body of the mold 5 5 being circumferential, no excrescence nor disfiguring mold-mark is left on the candle.

The appliances employed are inexpensive and of the simplest description, while the 0peration can be carried on with the utmost 6o facility.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of the specification, Figure I is a side elevation of the mold. Fig. II is a bottom view of the cap. Fig. III is a plan of the body of the mold, and Fig. IV is a section of the mold with a candle in place therein.

The body A of the mold is, as shown, of frusto-conical form, with its surface fluted or grooved and open at both ends. The cap B 7o is in the form of a short collar, the opening 2 serving to admit the candle end. As shown, its inner surface at 3 is rounded and made flaring downward, its diameter where it joins the top of the body A being larger than the top diameter of said body. It is further shown as provided with an annular depending lip or flange 4 outside the shoulder 5, which rests on the top of the mold-body A, while the lip 4c fits around the body.

In operation the mold-body A is placed on a fiat surface C and filled with the melted material. The cap B is placed in position, as shown in Figs. I and IV. The butt-end of the candle is then inserted through the opening 2 and forced down, so as to displace the melted material and cause it to ascend and fill the now close mold about the candle end. After the material has set the cap Bis removed over the top of the candle and the body of the mold 9o withdrawn over the butt.

As shown, the opening 2 in the collar is of greater diameter than the smaller end of the mold, so that the conical butt will taper from a diameter smaller than the candle to a greater 9 5 diameter.

I claim as my invention or discovery-a 1. A mold for forming self-fitting ends or butts on candles, consisting of the upwardlyflaring body and the cap in the form of a short collar, having an opening to receive the candle end and adapted to close the top of the said body, substantially as described.

v2. A mold composed of the frusto-eonical or Haring body open at both ends and the cap in the form of a short collar at the large end of said body, substantially as described.

l 3. A mold composed of the iaring body and the cap in the form of a short collar, having about the shoulder which rests on said body a depending lip or flange which iits outside the larger end of said body, substantallyas described.

4. A mold composed of a frnsto-conical or Haring body and a collar for the larger end of said body, having the opening therein of greater diameter than thesmaller end of the mold, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH BAUMGARTNER.

Witnesses:

A. F. NEALE, E. M. TUCKER. 

